Are military personnel required (or allowed) to salute while they are military prisoners?
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wickedwillie
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Please define military prisoner, do you mean POW or held as a prisoner by the soldier's home country? POW? Depends on who, where, and under what conditions the soldier is being held. If being held by own government then, the short answer is yes. Military personnel are required to salute. This differs by country and this applies to U.S. Military Personnel. Is there a specific country this question was meant to apply to? The more information I have, the better I can answer this question. It's not clear what you are asking.
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To my understanding, military prisoners (held by their home country) have lost the right to salute. See http://www.armystudyguide.com/customs_courtesies/studyguide.htm.
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I believe the answer you are looking for depends on the country, place, Commanding Officer of the POW camp ETC as stated in one of the other answers. However, if you mean by military law, just because an Officer has been captured, does in no way remove his or her commission, and nor does it relinquish the duty and courtesy NCO’s and other Enlisted Personnel should be paying to the Officers above them at the camp by way of a salute.
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There is an order in the Marine Corps that requires a prisoner of war to salute to commanding officers. My fiance is a Sergeant and he said that.
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Well you dont salute in a war zone because it makes officers targets for the snipers and im assuming a millitary prison is considered part of a war zone so im assuming you wouldnt salute in a prison
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It would depend on the type of military prisioners you're talking about. With regards to POW's, the accepted custom has been for military POW's to salute the commanding officer of their facility when addressing him properly, but obeying the guards and lesser officers of the facility wihtout salutes when not making formal requests. Prisioners held on criminal charges are not permitted to saluate or be saluted. Depending on rank however, military curtoseies are respected
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if your talking about a POW i would expect that they would not salute their officer, so they wouldnt give him away, but then again i think you give the enemy your rank. isnt the only thing a US Soldier/Marine/etc required togive name, rank, service number, and date of birth, so they would already have their rank
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If they are a POW, then they should still salute thier officers and also the Commander of the camp they are being held in. It is considered (Or was anyway by the old Prussian military tradition) the honourable thing to do. I was reading a while back of a German officer who was captured, saluted an American officer, who almost returned it but walked away. The Prussian military code required him to salute his captor.
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It totally is illogical that enlisted POWs salute any officer or officer POWs salute officers of superior rank of anybody holding them captive. The origins of the salute derive from the mediavel custom of raising one's visor to show trust, rendering ones self symbolically vulnerable and demonstrate that no evil is intended. In more recent centuries the salute devolved into raising ones hat when meeting. Raising your hat implied that you were not about to assault the person being saluted. There was no weapon beneath the hat. There are still a few gentlemen who either raise their hat or simply touch the brim of their hat when meeting a lady. Such saluting demonstrates respect for and denies any intent to harm to the person being saluted. To suggest that a captive British sergeant in in a Nazi prison camp or a US Marine in a Japanese labour camp actually respects and intends no harm to his captors is utter hog wash. Saluting a captor illogical in the extreme.
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If you're U.S. military in a prison in the USA for a crime, you lose the privilege. Remember the salute is a gesture of respect and greeting. Convicts don't deserve it.
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A soldier never salutes a ranking member (POW) because it targets this soldier. Once taken prisoner, soldiers learn who is in charge but never divulge to the enemy because the enemy will use your commanding officer to extract military intelligence or to use as a pawn to obtain the release of their soldiers being held by our army.
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